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      • Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems
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      • Western Cape Governance
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      • Taking local food systems recalibration to scale
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      • Western Cape Nutrition Strategy
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      • The Nourished Child
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      • Supporting Smallholder Agriculture Workshop
      • The rollout of food safety standards amongst small scale farmers
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13 Nov Count the real cost of malnutrition on a country’s economy, says Prof Simba Sibanda

Posted at 06:11h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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​Too many food-related policies in Africa end up being nothing more than mere wish lists. These need to be turned into actionable pieces of legislation that are supported with adequate funding on a national and sub-national level....

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13 Nov Urgent call: ‘Agri must become more nutrition-focused’

Posted at 04:52h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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During an African food dialogue hosted at Stellenbosch University, Professor Simba Sibanda, who leads the theme nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) at the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), discussed Africa’s food systems and the disconnect between agriculture and nutrition....

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17 Oct South Africa’s food crisis – avoidable, unnecessary and reaching epidemic proportions

Posted at 09:57h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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Households are drowning in a relentless spiral of debt, high interest rates, various living costs increases, food price inflation, anxiety and desperation as they are forced to make impossible choices with meagre financial resources....

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17 Oct Don’t force big retailers to cut profits margins on essential food – there are better ways to fight hunger

Posted at 09:53h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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As appealing as it is to want to put pressure on retail giants into forgoing a small fraction of their gargantuan profits by scrapping their profit margins on essential food items, this strategy is flawed....

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09 Oct Eight million hungry children: New report about the shocking impact of poverty on young South Africans

Posted at 13:24h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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A new report on child poverty by the Department of Social Development (DSD) brings new data, including the fact that eight million children are not getting enough nutrition. With the constitutional duty on the state to ensure every child has ‘basic nutrition’, it will add...

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09 Oct Subsidising these 10 essential products could help stave off malnutrition in SA, say civil society groups

Posted at 13:18h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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With millions of children not getting enough nutrition, the DG Murray Trust’s Grow Great project has intensified its call for the government and food industry to waive mark-ups on 10 essential food items. Rising food prices are causing chronic malnutrition affecting one-quarter of South Africa’s children,...

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12 Sep Touws River community garden plants seeds of compassion and keeps hunger at bay

Posted at 08:40h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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Volunteers tackle food insecurity in Touws River by growing vegetables in home and community food gardens. It’s a town where many people are unemployed and struggling to make ends meet....

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23 Aug Small-scale farmers putting food back where it belongs — at the heart of communities

Posted at 13:35h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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Smallholder farmers are at the periphery of the food industry and yet farmers such as Nontobeko Khanyile, in collaboration with multiple projects, prove they should be at the forefront of the fight against unsustainable farming and hunger....

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21 Jul William Moseley: Understanding Global Food Security

Posted at 09:26h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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The reality is that nobody wins when there is widespread food insecurity in the world as this leads to social unrest, migration, and human suffering....

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20 Jun University of Johannesburg pioneering innovative use of aquaponics and sandponics to enable Food Justice for all

Posted at 07:03h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer
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Professor Michael Rudolph of the Center of Ecological Intelligence is spearheading a programme of inexpensive approaches to cultivating food gardens to address food insecurity issues in South Africa....

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